After winning the first match, Bangladesh girls lost two consecutive matches. Today Thursday (October 10) night in their third match in the ‘B’ group they just flew to the West Indies.
Bangladesh girls somehow scored 103 runs after losing 8 wickets after losing the toss and batting at the Sharjah Cricket Stadium. In response, the Caribbean girls anchored in the port of victory by losing only 2 wickets in 12.5 overs. West Indies kept the hope of going to the semi-finals alive by winning by 8 wickets after losing 43 balls. On the other hand, the departure of Bangladesh was confirmed.
Chasing the runs, captain Hayley Mathews and Stephanie Taylor scored 52 runs in 7.2 overs in stormy batting. Mathews returned to this run scoring 34 off 6 fours off 22 balls. Stephanie retired after 73 runs. He scored 27 runs in 3 fours. After 84 in 11.1 overs, the Caribbean girls lost their second wicket. Shemaini Campbell was dismissed for 21 runs off 16 balls.
After that, Diandra Dottin came down and played an unbeaten innings of 19 runs off just 7 balls with 1 four and 2 sixes and left the field with 8 wickets and 43 balls in hand to ensure the victory of the team. Chinel Henry remained unbeaten on 2 runs with him.
Bangladesh’s Nahida Akhtar took 1 wicket with 22 runs in 3 overs and Marufa Akhtar took 1 wicket with 20 runs in 3 overs. West Indies bowler Karishma Ramharak who took 4 wickets with only 17 runs was the man of the match.
Before that Bangladesh lost the toss and came down to bat. None other than Niger’s Sultana Jyoti batted fluently. There were no sixes in Bangladesh’s innings. Four hits were only 9. Jyoti killed all 4 of them. However, his innings was not T20-worthy. Played 44 balls and scored 39 runs with 4 fours.
Opening batsman Dilara Akhter scored 19 runs in 2 fours. And 16 runs in 2 fours came from the bat of Sobhana Mostari. Besides, Ritu Moni scored 10 runs. None of the rest could touch the double-digit quota.
Karishma Ramharak of West Indies took 4 wickets with only 17 runs in 4 overs. Afi Fletcher took 2 wickets with 25 runs in 4 overs. Besides, captain Hayley Mathews took 1 wicket with 19 runs in 4 overs.
In this victory, West Indies girls have climbed to the top of the points table with 4 points from 3 matches and +1.708 net run rate. South African girls are second with equal points from equal matches and +1.527 net run rate. England girls are third with 4 points and +0.653 net run rate from 2 matches. Bangladesh is in fourth place with 2 points and -0.835 net run rate from 3 matches.
South Africa is the opponent of Bangladesh on Saturday night in the last match of the group stage. And on Tuesday, West Indies’ opponent is England.
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